Three chairs for Mind

19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Hammersmith and Fulham
Polly Skeats-Beswick
Catriona Sibert
John D Wren
Sarah Wren
Sarah
Justine De Mones
Alice Gregson
Miteki Degawa
Grace Kirby
Joanne Gregg
Arba
Anders Klingberg
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Steve Stuart
Aisling Fagan
Jesse Kelly
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Hammersmith and Fulham

Tuesday 5th June 2018

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19 good eggs ran 3km to help out H&F Mind.

We started our lovely sunny evening in the Hammersmith the Better gym. Here I gave the runners a briefing about our run ahead and the night’s task. We had two runners Grace and Aisling who joined us for their first Goodgym session and Paul touristing from Wansworth (this being his lucky 13th area in London to visit).

After shooing the chickens back in the barn and warming up the rest of our limbs, we headed off on the short run towards the task. The streets were pretty busy on the way there, but we made it in one piece.

Once we arrived at Mind we found they had 8 chairs for us to build. This involved deciphering the flat pack furniture instructions and some good team work. Each chair had two people working to construct it. As we had 2 bonus goodgymers to chair ratio, Catriona and Paul got stuck into weeding the two flower beds... with spoons - very resourceful.

Team Anders and Sarah W completed their chair 1st out of the group, then Team Jason and Josh 2nd, then in 3rd place Sarah K and Steve.

After everyone had completed the chairs and we had taken a photo for proof we head off towards Lille Road Rec.

Here we did some running technique, muscle memory drills. - doing high skips for leg drive & calf strength - high knees to reinforce knee lift - bum kicks for promote quick feet/lower leg movement - running backwards for glutes & hamstring strengthening - stroppy ponies for practicing our foot landing position

After that, we finished up with a time trial around the park.

After the session it was time for our monthly social in Draught House where we went for drinks, food and some DIY flag making. The awesome Catriona supplied us with fabric pens, paints and a big bed sheet to make Hammersmith & Fulham’s flag for the Olympics. Lots of fun was had by all.

Lovely stuff! Until next week, happy running :)


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